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Another Best Day Ever with Leadville Mountain Bike Champ Larissa Connors

Hey everybody! My name is Sonya Looney and welcome to my podcast. For those of you who don’t have any context on me, I’m a plant-based World Champion ultra endurance mountain biker. I travel the world and have met some incredible people with world class attitudes and ways of living that motivate me daily, and I want to share their paths of mastery with you. This is a podcast interviewing inspiring leaders across the categories of wellness, endurance fitness, plant-based nutrition, mindset, and entrepreneurship to help you unlock the best and healthiest version of yourself.

Another Best Day Ever with Leadville Mountain Bike Champ Larissa Connors

Jul 20, 2018

Larissa Connors might be the most stoked and energetic person you've ever seen. Every photo I see of Larissa has her rocking her infectious grin. Seriously, google her and look at the images! What puts that cheshire cat grin on her face? Mountain biking.

Larissa is an ultra endurance mountain bike racer for Sho-Air cycling group and Felt bicycles. Larissa is rad- she has won every 100 miler she has ever raced including the Leadville 100. On top off her stellar fitness, she is a full time high school Algebra teacher who gets an insane amount of riding in each month from an awesome bike commute and coaches the Laguna Beach Interscholastic mtb team. She is addicted to pushing herself to ride further, higher and harder every minute of every day (much to her CTS coach's dismay). She is racing 5 100 mile mountain bike races in a row (yeah, ever week!) In addition to winning, Larissa's main goals in cycling are to make every day the best day possible, to inspire stoke, and to spread the gospel of mountain biking far and wide. If just one person finds the joy of sailing down a trail, over rocks and roots, in the woods on a Felt Edict, then her career will be deemed a success!

"What matters is that I focus on lifting others up, having a great time riding bikes, and spreading stoke." - Larissa Connors

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

Larissa' background and her transition to endurance racing
What Larissa loves about being a teacher
How she deals with disappointment
What her #anotherbestday means to her
How she stays motivated
How much Larissa Connors trains (it's crazy!)
Her one non-negotiable
Larissa Connors race strategy (and it worked to win Leadville 100!)

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